Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1887-09-10
IN DEPE N DEN t.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1887.


The Annual Conference OF the NJ
T.. Church. South, will convene at
Raveuswood, September 7th, and be
in session several days.
Robert Boyle, OF Charleston, has
a bible printed in 1910. He brought
IL from Scotland in 1882, and claims
that IL has been in his family over
two hundred years.
The Hon. ii. G.. Davis is pushing
the extension Of the w. Va. Central
road southwark with great vigor.
In conversation few days ago, the
ex-senator said he would construct
his road down the Elk to Cha. leston
in one direction and to Hagerstown,
Md. in the other. He said he did
not know exactly how he was going
to reach the latter point but he was
going to do it.
During picnic at Marshville,
Harrison county, Beverly Flowers
and William Bates got into fight.
Flowers hit Bates with tumbler,
then with rock. cutting the scalp
open. He then struck Bates in the
thigh with a knife, breaking the
blade from the handle and leaving it
in the wound, from which a man
named Marsh drew il with pincers.
The blade was three inches long.
Bates is getting along very well.
Flowers has left that section.
One day last week Calvin Hug.
gins, who lived in Blue Sulphur dis
trict, on Muddy creek, Greenbrier
county, was instantly killed by a
falling tree. He was alone at the
time and how the accident occurred
is only conjecture. He left home in
the morning for his work and was
found dead about o'clock in the
evening by tree he had felled.
From indications it seems as If he
had cut the tree down, which in fall
ing was impeded by another tree,
breaking off limb which fell on his
head crushing it in fearful manner.
Mr.. II. Barnes left last week for
New York, having finished his filth
season buying lambs here. The first
year he paid out 500 1000 for $4,000
lambs, which were shipped to Judd
& Buckingham. This season he has
been with J. y. Pidcock. Trade has
not been so heavy as not near so
many lambs were raised in this vi
cinity, yet he bought $1,000 lambs
this wear. Mr.. Barnes has made
many friends here who hope to see
him back next year, as he is a jolly
sort of Santa Claus and man who
deals on the square.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thornton Walker, a
respectable colored couple of Park
ersburg, have child that is a curl
osity. 1t is three months old and
weighs but four pounds. The child's
wrists are not as large as a com
mon sized spool and the hands are
very small, the fingers being no lar
ger than common penholder. When
three weeks old he had his first tooth
and up to this writing has eight, four
in each jaw. One of the lower teeth
is loose and will soon come out, and
another is just coming through the
gum in the upper. The diminutive
size of the child could not be imag-
ined without being seen. The child
is the sixth of the family, has never
been sick and is to all appearances
in perfect health. Mrs. Walker pos,
itively refuses to put the child upon
public exhibition, but persons calling
at the house will have the pleasure oil
seeing it.
OF the prominent families in the
Kanawha Valley the names Of
Haynes and Young stand amongst
the first. Among the younger mem
bers is Miss Lucy Haynes, scarcely
Is. bright vivacious miss whose
beauty is one of her many sttrac
tons. Geo. Young, now but l9, has
paid court at the shrine of Miss Lu
cy for the past two years, but botl
families objected strenuously to theil
mutual devotion. Tired Of frowns
clandestine meetings and secretly
sent notes, they determined upon /
bold elopement and selected Satur
day morning about cock Growing
time for their venture. At the APP
pointed time Young, with two swift
footed steeds, approached cautiously
the abode of his lady, and halted be
meath her chamber window. In lesl
time than it takes to write it Mis-
Lucy glided down rope which sh,
had fastened to her bedstead and a
lighted on the back of one of thu
horses. At this juncture Young
found that but forty minutes re
NAMED before train time and tn,